Background
Eiseley, Loren Corey was born on September 3, 1907 in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. Son of Clyde and Daisy (Corey) Eiseley.
Eiseley, Loren Corey was born on September 3, 1907 in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. Son of Clyde and Daisy (Corey) Eiseley.
Bachelor of Arts, Univercity Nebraska, 1933. A.M., University of Pennsylvania, 1935, Doctor of Philosophy, 1937. Social Science Research Council postdoctoral fellow Columbia and American Museum Natural History, 1940-1941.
Numerous honorary degrees.
Member Morrill Paleontological Expdns. U. Nebraska, 1931-1933, University of Pennsylvania and Carnegie Expedition to Southwest, 1934, Smithsonian Expedition Northern Colorado, 1935. Assistant professor sociology and anthropology U. Kansas, 1937-1942, associate professor, 1942-1944.
Professor sociology and anthropology, head department Oberlin (Ohio) College, 1944-1947. Visiting professor anthropology Columbia, summers 1946, 50, University of California, Berkeley, summer 1949, Harvard University, summer 1952. Professor anthropology University of Pennsylvania, 1947-1959, department chairman, 1947-1959, provost, 1959-1961, professor anthropology and history of science, department chairman history of science, 1961-1963, Benjamin Franklin professor anthropology and history of science, 1961-1977, curator of Early Man University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1948-1977, member University of Pennsylvania Museum archaeological survey Montana, 1973.
Host, narrator prize-winning educational series NBC-television, 1966-1968. Member committee interrelationships of pleistocene research National Research Council, 1947-1950, vice chairman Division of Psychology and Anthropology, 1950-1952. Fellow Center for Advanced Study Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, 1961-1962.
Member Presidential Task Force Conservation Natural Beauty, 1965. Advisory board national parks Department Interior, 1966-1972, council member, 1972-1977. Member college electors Hall Fame for Great Americans.
Member of advisory board Center for Advanced Study in Religion and Science Board of directors Samuel S. Fels Foundation Research grants Wenner-Gren Foundation Anthropology, 1952-1953. Guggenheim Foundation fellow, 1963-1964. Recipient Page One award Newspaper Guild Philadelphia, 1960, Philadelphia Arts Festival award, 1962, Philadelphia Art Alliance medal achievement, 1967.
Distinguished Nebraskan award, 1974.
Member Morrill Paleontological Expdns. U. Nebraska, 1931-1933, University of Pennsylvania and Carnegie Expedition to Southwest, 1934, Smithsonian Expedition Northern Colorado, 1935. Member committee interrelationships of pleistocene research National Research Council, 1947-1950, vice chairman Division of Psychology and Anthropology, 1950-1952.
Member Presidential Task Force Conservation Natural Beauty, 1965. Member college electors Hall Fame for Great Americans. Member of advisory board Center for Advanced Study in Religion and Science Board of directors Samuel S. Fels Foundation.
Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science (vice president, chairman of the section L, 1969. Member American Association Physical Anthropologists, American Anthropological Association (Vice-President 1948), Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia Anthropological Society (president 1948), American Philosophical Society, National Institute Arts and Letters, World Academy Arts and Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Mabel Langdon, August 29, 1938.